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CRIME WATCH
November 16, 2013
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hen abut four weeks ago, Deolu Olatoye was naming his second child, little did he know that he was breathing his last days on earth. More surprising it would have been for Deolu that two of the so-called friends that were helping him organise the naming ceremony would end his life so abruptly. Deolu was reportedly stabbed severally in all parts of his body recently by two friends and close confidants identified as Yusuf and Mukalila. Deolu. 32, was a father of two kids before he was hatched to death in the room of one of his friends at Oke-Efon, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Investigations revealed that Yusuf, one of Deolu’s two friends, had been suspecting that he was having an amorous affair with his wife, identified as Busayo, and did not hid his disdain for the deceased. Strangely, Yusuf never for one day confronted the deceased on the charge but continued to nurse the animosity against him. It was on account of this accusation that Yusuf and Mukaila allegedly connived to sniff life out of their friend, Deolu. Eyewitnesses say that on the fateful day that he would be hatched to death, Deolu was putting finishing touches to the forth-coming birthday celebration of his aged mother. He was reportedly saddled with getting people invited for the birthday bash. That he was doing until he met his untimely death. It was reported that on the day he would be killed, Deolu returned from his mother’s house and just told his own wife that he wanted to see his two friends, Mukaila and Yusuf. It was reported that Deolu checked Mukaila at home, but the latter’s wife informed him her husband and their third friend had gone out. So, after Deolu dropped Mukaila’s invite, he reportedly headed for Yusuf ’s house where he met the latter’s wife at home. It was reported that while Deolu was coming down the stairs of Yusuf ’s house, the two friends were also coming in and they asked that their departing friend returned upstairs. Deolu reportedly heeded his friend’s request and when they were all at Yusuf ’s room, the two friends subjected the deceased to beating, using a knife all over his body. Once they were satisfied with their action, Mukaila and Yusuf reportedly left the house. An eyewitness account claimed that the two suspected cultists headed for a police station nearby to report the matter. But while there, they reported to law enforcements of a disagreement with a friend which left the latter injured. Upon hearing
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Man stabbed to death over amorous relationship with friend’s wife their story, it was reported that law enforcement agents asked that Mukaila returned home to take the injured friend to the hospital. That was the last they saw of Mukaila, as he took to this heels. A neighbour, indentified as Mama Ibukun told reporters that the deceased struggled with life until he gave up the ghost. According to the fashion designer, “The noise coming from the man (Yusuf)’s room alerted a lot of people in the neighbourhood, but since such cries was a recurring decimal there, no one really bothered to enquire what the noise was about. It was later we heard that the noise was that of Brother Deolu who we all know as a friend to the man living in that room,” she said. Yusuf ’s wife, who was suspected to be having an amorous affair with the deceased, upon interrogation informed law enforcement agents that she was actually close with the deceased. The woman
claimed that she and the deceased used to work together before but denied having an affair with him. The woman was quoted as saying, “It was strange and surprising to hear that I was dating brother Deolu. I had been known to him now for long and my husband even knows that we used to work together. But to hear that it was because of me that they did what they did to him was unbelievable. There was no such a time the man even asked me out to start with,” the woman reportedly told law enforcement agents. Muyiwa Odejobi, Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, could not be immediately reached on phone, but a senior police officer at state CID, Eleweran, confirmed that arrest of Yusuf and claimed that investigations were still ongoing on the matter.
Court remands seven over alleged murder of businessman
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he Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday remanded seven men accused of killing a 49-year-old businessman. The Magistrate, Mrs F.O. Botoku, ordered that the accused should be kept in the Ikoyi Prisons over alleged murder of Chidi Ejimudo. The court could not take the pleas of the accused as Botoku said that she needed the advice of the state’s director of public prosecutions. The court adjourned the case till Dec. 13 for mention. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accused are: Bilyaminu Adamu, 24; Inusa Mohammed, 33; Mohammed Alhassan, 52; Iliyasu Daliman, 28; Aminu Meddah, 33; Mustapha Abubakar, 23, and Sukaidu Suberu, 42. The prosecutor, Cpl. Morufu Animashaun, had said that they conspired to murder Ejimudo at 3.00a.m. on July 10 at
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his residence at No. 116, Iyana-Isashi Road, near the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. He said that the accused murdered the deceased with a cutlass. Animashaun said that the accused were
arrested after series of investigation by the police. The prosecutor said that the offences contravened Sections 221 and 231 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
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Kubwa Upper Area Court in Abuja on Friday sentenced one Garuba Rabiu, to 14 days imprisonment for intimidating his neighbour, Omaye Shuaibu. The Judge, Alhaji Lawal Manir, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to the two- count charge of assault and intimidation. Manir did not give the convict an option to pay a fine, saying that the punishment would serve as deterrent to others. He warned the convict to live in peace with his neighbour after he had served his punishment. Earlier, the Prosecutor, Cpl. Arziki
Kaura, told the court that Shuaibu lodged a report against the convict on Nov. 12 at the Dutse Makaranta Police Station. Kaura alleged that the convict beat up Shuaibu because she refused to answer his greetings three times. He also said Rabiu threatened to inflict grievous injuries on her with a cutlass The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 265 and 397 of the Penal Code. Earlier, the convict, while pleading for leniency, apologised to Shuaibu, noting that he had no problem with her before the November 12, 2013, incident.
Lagos Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Yinusa Mohammed, has fixed December 17, 2013, for the trial of two women over their alleged involvement in child trafficking offences. Justice Yinusa fixed the date after he had ruled on their bail application which was argued by their counsel Chief Benson NdaKara. They were however granted bail in the sum of N2 million with two sureties in the same sum each. The women, a 55 year-old Madam Kike Martins, popularly called Iya Akere, a resident of 3, Agbo Looking Street, Lagos Island; and Salami Olabisi, 54, who resides at110, Igbosere Street, Lagos Island; were charged before the court by National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Related Offences, (NAPTIP), on a two count-charge of trafficking in under aged person. NAPTIP in a charge number FHC/ L/344c/2012, signed by Vivienne Okey-Ngene, a Principal Legal Officer in the agency, for the AttorneyGeneral of the federation, alleged that the two accused persons had sometime in the month of July, 2011, transacted between themselves a 14 year-old, Alice, a citizen of Benin Republic, for unlawful forced labour. The offences according to NAPTIP are punishable under Section 22(1) (a) and 22(1)(d) of the Trafficking in Persons Prohibition Law and administration Act 2003, and punishable under the same section of the act. Count one of the charge reads: “That you Kike Martins(a.k.a. Iya Akere), 54 years, of 3, Agbo Olokun street, Lagos Island, on or about the month of July 2011, at 110, Igboosere street, Lagos Island, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, acquired Alice, 14 years, of Benin Republic, to be used for unlawful forced labour, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22(1) (a) of the trafficking in persons prohibition law enforcement and administration Act 2003 as amended and punishable under same section of the act.” Count two reads: “That you Salami Olabisi, 54, of 110, Igboosere street, Lagos Island, on or about the month of July. 2011, at the same address, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, employed Alice, 14 years, of Benin Republic, as a domestic child outside her family environment, and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 22(1) (d) of the trafficking in persons prohibition law enforcement and administration Act 2003 as amended, and punishable under the same section of the act.” (www.gazellenews.com)